Great snow, still touchy!

Map for Mountain Information Network report: Great snow, still touchy!

Snow conditions

Riding quality was:
Amazing
Snow conditions were:
  • Deep powder
We rode:
  • Mellow slopes
  • Open trees
We stayed away from:
  • Convex slopes
  • Steep slopes

Information

The day was:
  • Cold
  • Sunny
Avalanche conditions
  • Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
  • 30cm + of new snow, or significant drifting, or rain in the last 48 hours.
  • Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.

Comments

Beauty cold smoke little sand day! Still lots of signs of instability out there. Saw a size 1.5-2 natural slab avalanche that occurred at some point in the afternoon. It released on a steep openly treed north facing slope. No photo of this one unfortunately.

We remote triggered a slab avalanche on a short steep convex roll from about 70m away. Crown depth was about 80-90cm. Sledder rode into a meadow below and adjacent to the slope and triggered the slide.